Children Quote by angela carter

“I’d never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys. They just…

— Joanna Wylde

“In the dresser mirror, my face looks the same, but I feel something happening around me, some change as palpable as weather. Stuck in…

— Jo Ann Beard

“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely…

— A.L. Jackson

“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a…

— Gillian Flynn

“I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror... I think some lover wanted his beloved to see how she…

— Julia Hoban

“He couldn't fit the two things together. It gave him a jagged, unfinished feeling, like the first pinprick of heartbreak, a tiny pointed lance…

— Roxana Robinson

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“A vast mirror hung above his desk, its gilt frame a horror of twisted vines and sharp leaves, angry looking foliage. I thought of…

— Susan Power

“It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.”

— Mary Lascelles

“It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with…

— Alan Paton

“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray,…

— Anna Quindlen